Chapter

 1 VI    |              reach a depth of thirty miles we should have arrived at
 2 XI    |            would be about twenty-two miles, to be done, said my uncle,
 3 XII   |             surface is 14,000 square miles, and it contains but 16,
 4 XII   |             on at the rate of thirty miles a day.”~“We may; but how
 5 XII   |         banks of the Hvalfiord, four miles from Rejkiavik. I showed
 6 XII   |         showed it to my uncle.~“Four miles only!” he exclaimed; “four
 7 XII   |           only!” he exclaimed; “four miles out of twenty-eight. What
 8 XII   |              had gone four Icelandic miles, or twenty-four English
 9 XII   |               or twenty-four English miles.~In that place the fiord
10 XII   |           was at least three English miles wide; the waves rolled with
11 XIII  |            distance of at least five miles.~The horses did their duty
12 XXII  |          thinnest of which were five miles thick.~Yet in the midst
13 XXIII |           water should be, found six miles underground. It has an inky
14 XXV   |              1,600 leagues, or 4,800 miles. Out of 1,600 leagues we
15 XXV   |            we must go eight thousand miles in a south-easterly direction;
16 XXVIII|              is 22,400 feet, or four miles and a quarter, nearly.”~. . . .~“
17 XXVIII|               nearly.”~. . . .~“Four miles and a quarter!” I murmured.~. . . .~“
18 XXVIII|              with a distance of four miles and a quarter between us,
19 XXX   | ramifications to the extent of forty miles. But what were these cavities
20 XXXIV |            the league measures three miles. (Trans.)~
21 XXXVII|            There within three square miles were accumulated the materials
22 XLII  |             feet in a second, or ten miles an hour. At this rate we
23 XLIV  |       another more than two thousand miles from Snæfell and from that